The Yearly Kindle Tradition

It seems like a tradition now.
It is the third year on a row that I got a Kindle towards the end of the year.
In 2012 it was a Kindle Touch 3G, then a year later, sold that one, and got a Kindle Paperwhite 2.
Yesterday got a Kindle Touch for my GF, the newest one, the one that offers, once again, 4 GB of HDD storage.

50K and counting!

Made it to half a 100 K...
In a little bit over 3 year period, not bad.

Thursday 20-11-2014

To Lollipop And Beyond!

Today upgraded from Kit Kat to Lollipop my trusty 2012 Nexus 7.
Obviously, I didn’t had a lot of time to test it yet, but only thing is clear -to me- I love the new look.
As usual after such an update, MX is not working, yet.

Tuesday 18-11-2014

Monday 17-11-2014

Sunday 16-11-2014

Thursday 13-11-2014

Wednesday 12-11-2014

Currently reading

Started this one, Apollo, last Saturday.
Pretty, pretty, pretty good.
I'm onto it to about 15% of it, and, so far, it reminds me a lot of Tom Wolfe's "The Right Stuff".

49K and counting!

Another thousand up!
Yeah! The party never ends! :p

Movies To Be Seen with My GF

(In no particular order)

• The Seven Ages of Rock (Actually a documentary, but what a hell...)
• Thank You For Smoking
• Up In The Air
• The French Connection
• Bullit
• High Fidelity
• The Wire (all seasons)
• Curb Your Enthusiasm (all seasons)
• Living In Oblivion
• The Virgin Suicides
• ZPG
• The Bling Ring
• Control
• The Master
• Margin Call
• Conspiracy
• Donnie Darko
• The Insider
• Paris, Texas
• Repo Man
• Walker

Tuesday 04-11-2014

Error: Multiple packages found matching 'mysql'. Please remove manually.

I got this error, while trying to upgrade MySQL on a CentOS box.
Following  the instructions given here: MySQL 5.5 on CentOS/RHEL 6.5 and 5.10 via Yum.
While trying to install a newer MySQL, I got the error message for this post's Subject.

After adding the new repo, and of course, as usual, before starting with the upgrade, make a full dump of the DB:

mysqldump -u root -p --all-databases > all_dbs.sql

And then stop the MySQL service.

So, following their instructions I got this error:

sudo yum replace mysql --replace-with mysql55w
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, replace
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * webtatic-el5: uk.repo.webtatic.com
Replacing packages takes time, please be patient...
Error: Multiple packages found matching 'mysql'.  Please remove manually.

I've checked and double checked if I had something wrong installed with my current MySQL (which aws workin A Ok, BTW)

$ rpm -q mysql mysql-server
mysql-5.0.95-5.el5_9
mysql-5.0.95-5.el5_9
mysql-server-5.0.95-5.el5_9

The solution:

sudo rpm -e mysql.i386 --nodeps

And then, proceed to install like they recommend:

$ sudo yum replace mysql --replace-with mysql55w
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, replace
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * webtatic-el5: uk.repo.webtatic.com
webtatic-el5     | 2.5 kB     00:00    
Replacing packages takes time, please be patient...

WARNING: Unable to resolve all providers: ['config(mysql)', 'libmysqlclient.so.15()(64bit)', 'libmysqlclient.so.15(libmysqlclient_15)(64bit)', 'libmysqlclient_r.so.15()(64bit)', 'libmysqlclient_r.so.15(libmysqlclient_15)(64bit)', 'config(mysql-server)', 'mysql-devel']

This may be normal depending on the package.  Continue? [y/N] y

Dependencies Resolved

This may be normal depending on the package.  Continue? [y/N] y

Dependencies Resolved